Note 257 — THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.
George Chapman translation
Mingled metal.] Ηλεκτρον is not amber, but a mixed metal: which Pliny describes as consisting of three parts gold, and the fourth silver. Electrum is one of the materials in the Shield of Æneas, Æn. viii.:
And mingled metals damask’d o’er with gold. Pitt.